Digital Journal – by Justin King

Cardiff – Since 2012, over 800,000 children have had their biometric data taken by the government in the United Kingdom via the school system. One 13-year-old girl is refusing to comply with the demands.

In 31 percent of cases, the programs obtaining fingerprints or other biometric data from minors across the UK have done so without parental consent, according to Big Brother Watch. The civil liberties watchdog filed Freedom of Information Requests with over 3,000 schools. Less than half of those schools responded as required by law.   Continue reading “13-year-old defies ‘big brother’ and refuses to be fingerprinted”

Prescription drugs cause five times more deaths than heroinIntellihub – by John Vibes

Prescription opioids are killing Americans at more than five times the rate that heroin is, according to the most recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Prescription painkillers are among the most abused narcotics in the United States.  These drugs are just as addictive and harmful as the hardest street drugs, but because they are legal and prescribed by doctors they are greatly underestimated by our society.  This is what makes these drugs so dangerous, since they are socially acceptable many people ignore or overlook their addiction until it becomes a serious problem.   Continue reading “Study says prescription drugs are more dangerous than street drugs like heroin”

CorpWatch – by Pratap Chatterjee

Imagine that you could wander unseen through a city, sneaking into houses and offices of your choosing at any time, day or night.  Imagine that, once inside, you could observe everything happening, unnoticed by others — from the combinations used to secure bank safes to the clandestine rendezvous of lovers. Imagine also that you have the ability to silently record everybody’s actions, whether they are at work or play without leaving a trace. Such omniscience could, of course, make you rich, but perhaps more important, it could make you very powerful.   Continue reading “Selling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters”

extremists grow food 263x164 Government Labels those who Grow Their Own Food ExtremistsNatural Society – by Christina Sarich

Those who mean to lord over us, such as the Department of Defense, have now called people who grow their own food ‘radical’ and extremists. Sound familiar? It’s just like the US calling other nations terrorists when our government has terrorized more of the ‘free’ world than we could even imagine. It has basically called its own citizens terrorists already with NSA spying.

How in the world has it come to this? Americans are becoming ‘serfs’ to their own government much the same way that the British monarchy forced self-sufficient farmers to divide up their land into mono-cropping plots so that they could tax the heck out of everyone and make them reliant upon the same system of tenet farming which then enslaved the masses.   Continue reading “Government Labels those who Grow Their Own Food ‘Extremists’”

CafeMom

My DH suffers from OAB (Overactive Bladder) due to past problems with prostate cancer. (He is only 36 by the way and has been done with it for 3 years) We fly frequently and to be safe he usually wears a disposable brief (an adult diaper). He has been screened many times with the full body scanner and patted down many other times. On a few occasions, if he was being patted down, he has mentioned his “protection” and passed without further scrutiny.   Continue reading ““He’s Wearing a Diaper!”: TSA Agent Humiliates Cancer Victim”

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A few months ago, for our awesome stuff post looking at crowdfunding projects, we did one on hacking your car, highlighting a couple of projects involving OBD devices and software. It seems this market is exploding with other options, and a bunch of them have recently launched crowdfunding campaigns. To be honest, as with any such crowded market, the features of each start to blend together, and it’s a bit difficult to tell how any of these are particularly different than the others (or previous ones that are already on the market).   Continue reading “Awesome Stuff: Hacking Your Car, Part II”

Tenth Amendment Center

CONCORD, N.H., February 7, 2014 –  Yesterday, the New Hampshire house approved a bill which deems federal indefinite detention powers unconstitutional, and bans “any activity that aids” the federal government in carrying out such powers. The approval was by a unanimous voice vote. The bill will now move on to the state senate for further consideration.   Continue reading “New Hampshire house unanimously bans NDAA’s indefinite detention”

Privacy SOS

Despite the fact that the crime rate on public transit systems in Boston is declining, the MBTA has just announced that it intends to install brand new surveillance camera systems inside hundreds of buses throughout the city. The Boston region’s millions of commuters and hundreds of thousands of residents can once again thank the federal Department of Homeland Security for yet another hit to our privacy.    Continue reading “Seven million dollars in new surveillance cameras to be installed on Boston buses”

PoliceInsurance Journal

An Oklahoma state senator has filed a bill to allow law enforcement officers to issue electronic citations for traffic, misdemeanor and municipal ordinance violations.

A former police officer, Sen. Al McAffrey, said Senate Bill 1872 would protect law enforcement personnel during traffic stops.   Continue reading “Oklahoma Bill Would Allow Electronic Citations for Traffic Violations”

WBKO News

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — To increase driving safety, Kentucky State Police is starting a new “safe driving program”.

Operation R.A.I.D (Remove aggressive, Impaired. and Distracted Drivers from Kentucky Roadways) will remain active for one year.   Continue reading “Kentucky State Police Begin Operation R.A.I.D.”

Activist Post – by Amanda Warren

Cops break a child’s leg with a kick to the shin and move on to sexually assault his mother.

One morning, last January, NYPD from the 63rd precinct, showed up at Krystle Silvera’s home looking for her ex-boyfriend for violating an order of protection. But protecting is not how they responded to her family.

Her cancer-stricken mother answered the door, confused by what they were asking and why they were there. Silvera’s 10-year-old son, Courtney, fascinated by the officers of his own career aspirations, grabbed his mother’s cell phone to record the questioning.   Continue reading “NYPD Breaks Child’s Leg for Filming, Assaults Mom”

AlterNet – by Ryan Kocian

AUSTIN (CN) – An Austin police officer sexually assaulted a woman in the back seat of his cruiser, and she’s not the first one he molested, she claims in court.

Jane Doe sued Austin, its police chief, and her alleged assailant, Officer Jackie Len Neal, in Federal Court.   Continue reading “3-Day Suspension for a Cop’s Sexual Assault? Terrifying Impunity in TX Police”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff

As Americans in the economic middle struggle to keep up, many retailers and other businesses have decided to focus on the demands of the wealthy.

Since the end of the Great Recession, the nation’s top earners have been doing a significant portion of the consumer spending during the weak economic recovery, which is great news for high-end businesses that cater to this class.   Continue reading “Retailers Adjust to Rich Getting Richer and Middle Class Fading”

In a squad car video, a St. Paul police officer Matthew Gorans is shown pepper-spraying Eric Hightower in the ear during his arrest. (Screen grab fromTwin Cities – by Mara H. Gottfried

Squad car video released by St. Paul police shows what happened in the back of a squad on Aug. 28, 2012, during the arrest of Eric Hightower. The audio starts at the 30-second mark. Officer Matthew Gorans is seen entering the back of the squad car at the 54-second mark. Gorans sprays Hightower with pepper spray at the 1 minute, 10 second mark. Soon after, the drive to the jail begins, with Hightower screaming during the drive. Hightower gets out of the squad at the jail at the eight-minute mark. This video contains strong language.   Continue reading “Eric Hightower: Cop discipline cut to 1-day suspension in YouTube case”

Breitbart – by WARNER TODD HUSTON

On February 3, news emerged that the city of Chicago, now run by former Obama right-hand man Rahm Emanuel, is issuing $900 million in bonds, $100 million of which is going directly to pay off plaintiffs of lawsuits against the city.

The city is attempting to issue the $900 million in bonds to lower some of its borrowing costs and to double its short-term credit line to $1 billion. But fully $100 million of that debt burden is going to pay off lawsuits, much of it to plaintiffs who won judgments against the city in police brutality cases.   Continue reading “Chicago Issues $100 Million in Bonds to Settle Police Brutality Cases”

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FOIA request by Muclrock: DEA policies on “parallel construction”

Drug Enforcement Administration training documents released to MuckRock user C.J. Ciaramella show how the agency constructs two chains of evidence to hide surveillance programs from defense teams, prosecutors, and a public wary of domestic intelligence practices.   Continue reading “DEA manuals show how they train police to construct false chains of evidence”

(credit: CBS)CBS Denver – by Brian Maass

DENVER (CBS4) – The Denver District Attorney’s Office has declined to file criminal charges against a female Transportation Security Administration agent at Denver International Airport after a passenger complained the pat-down she received amounted to sexual assault.

“I felt sick to my stomach,” said Jamelyn Steenhoek, 39, when she learned Wednesday that Denver prosecutors were no longer pursuing her complaint and would not be filing criminal charges.   Continue reading “No Criminal Charges Against TSA Agent Over Pat-Down At DIA”